Monday, February 6, 2017

Donald
Trump is a liar. Everyday he has done something
that in effect sells out the people who voted for him. His so called
"swamp draining" has resulted in the nomination of no less than six
former or current Goldman Sachs executives, and most of his nominees are
billionaires. Several of them are totally unqualified to run the
agencies they will be expected to administer. Some have vowed to abolish
the very agency they will be running. His nominee to head up the EPA
has sued the agency at least a dozen times, and some of the suits are
still unresolved. In effect, he will be suing himself.

Now Trump
accuses the judge, and the judiciary in general, of putting the country
in danger with the ruling to stay his immigration ban.

PEOPLE!!!

First: Trump would have us believe that immigrants, including refugees,
are flooding into the country unchecked. That is total bullshit.
Refugees in particular are vetted thoroughly often taking anywhere from
18 months to over 2 years to get approved. Even with that, only about
15% to 20% of those applying actually gain entry.

Second: Trump
claims that this stay is giving bad "hombres" an opportunity to take
advantage of it and slip in unnoticed. That is stupid bullshit! Anyone who was apt to be stopped under Trump's order would be stopped and
interrogated in any case. Anyone who would not have been stopped before
Trump's order would not likely be stopped under it.

Trump can
require all the "extreme vetting" he wants, and it almost certainly will
have no greater effect against terrorists bent on killing Americans on
our soil than the system that currently exists.

Trump is a con
man. Everything he involves himself with is a con. He is conning all of
us. He is the ultimate narcissist, and frankly, I believe him to be a
megalomaniac.

He envies Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un because
they wield great and unquestioned power. Consider how Trump responds any
time he is criticized or denied anything. He goes ballistic; becomes
unhinged, and goes on one of his Tweeting binges.

Pretty much his entire adult life he has been the
unquestioned boss. Anything and everything he wanted, he got. But now,
he has more than half the population hating his guts. Pretty much all
congressional democrats despise him, and most republicans, who have
aligned with him, have done so for solely political reasons, not because they like him. Even his
staff has started leaking shit out of the White House, because there is so little
organization, and it's quite likely that their boss has proven to be the
total asshole to them as he has pretty much been to everyone else.

He
defames the press with the intent to silence it. Hitler did the same.
I'm not overstating that. Note that the press is the only business
mentioned in our Constitution. The founders understood the vital role
the press plays in holding our government accountable. It serves as a
check on all of the branches of our government. Again, Trump wants to
silence it. Why?

He wants to be our first dictator. He hotly
desires the same unquestioned power enjoyed by Putin and Kim Jong Un.The things he has said and done that point in that direction
are legion.

Sadly, Trumpsters are still in their adoring mode.
They believe him to be sent to them by god; that he is destined to be
our savior; that he will deliver our country from evil. They believe he
can say and do no wrong, even though much of what he says and does is
either a complete lie or insane... or both.

Going on two years now,
pretty much everyone has underestimated and/or misunderstood Trump. Some
of his success has been luck, but much of it has been calculated. As
repugnant as he is, he is not stupid. He knows how to manipulate people.
He manipulated the press. He was the shiny object. The media fawned
over him, on the one hand considering him to be rather a joke, but on
the other, Hey! he drew the big numbers. His republican opposition never
had a clue. He played them all like a fiddle. In his campaign he appealed to the lowest
common denominator sucking voters in in droves.

So, as long as we stay
in our disbelief mode, as long as we still expect him to "pivot" into some semblance of a normal president, we will eventually rue the day. It ain't gonna
happen folks.

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge

Thought For The Day

I'm not thorough. I'm just slow.

Food for Thought

Sometimes yes, maybe no. Sometimes no, maybe yes.

Thought For a Green Day.

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- William Butler Yeats

About Me

I am a charter member of the Boomer generation having been born in 1946. My fellow Boomers and I have lived through some incredible events - good and bad. Now my wife Jo and I are "empty nesters" faced with aging and all that comes with it. My two kids are out and about pursuing their lives. My wife and I continue to adjust to life in the slow lane.